SOLUTION: Total 356 students
34 more than 4 times the number of girls is = to half the boys.
How many are boys?
X=girls
Y=boys
4x+34=1/2y
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Question 952919: Total 356 students
34 more than 4 times the number of girls is = to half the boys.
How many are boys?
X=girls
Y=boys
4x+34=1/2y
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
given:
X=girls
Y=boys
total students
=> ......eq.1...solve for
......eq.1a
more than times the number of girls:
is = to half the boys:
=> ......eq.2...substitute from eq.1a
......solve for
-> the number of boys
......eq.1a
-> the number of girls
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